In your mind, what anniversary is the most important to you and why?

For me it is the date we met. Because without it the rest would’ve never happened.
For my husband it was the day I left home to move in with him. For him that symbolized how sure I was about my love for him.

After being married for almost 20 years, the only date we remember is the day we were married. Actually, I do remember the day my husband and I met, and my husband is amazed I remember the date.

How two people met seems important to me. It’s how you met that allowed you two to be together in the first place. Celebrate the moment that changed your lives forever.

Wedding anniversary because there have been more of them than any other event in our lives.I really don’t remember which day in March it was but I’m pretty sure it was in March, I think.

I don’t mean to be morbid or bum anyone out with all the happy occasions that are listed.
They’re all great. But as a widow I think about the date my husband passed away. I think now about all the many great years we had together and how silently that certain date that would one year be his departure date would roll around once a year, discreetly marking how much more time was on the clock for us. It just kind of fills me with wonder about the finiteness of time. Of course there is all kinds of marker dates in people’s lives and they are all significant. The date you met your special person should go up in lights for it was something wonderful that happened unexpectedly on the most ordinary of days. Cheers!

@smilingheart1 Amen to that. It is funny how one chance meeting on an ordinary day can be the catalyst for the rest of your life.
Thanks for that reminder.

Wedding anniversary. That’s the only one.

I remember our first date, the date we moved in together, and the date of our wedding. I think if my husband searched his memory he could come up with all three, though perhaps not without a struggle. He can always peek at the notations on the kitchen calendar if he needs a reminder.

We used to celebrate them all (back when there hadn’t been very many anniversaries yet). But now, after so many years, we really only make an occasion out of the wedding anniversary, and we just note the others with a smile as they pass by.

It depends on what is next – My 36 wedding anniversary is in two weeks and that is currently the most important one to me.

Oops I meant to say we met some time in march. We got married in June, same year which is what really counts for me.

My wife and I were married on the fifth anniversary of our relationship. This makes it doubly important to us since it is two anniversaries in one.

Wedding date.

@SavoirFaire Smart move. :D

@SavoirFaire Did you get in trouble? LOL

@Pandora It was her idea, but it has definitely worked out well for me!

I think she was partially inspired by her mother and step-father—neither of whom can remember when they got married nor where their marriage certificate is.

Date of the proposal because that is the date when you are officially going to jail.

@jeremyh Stop proposing to minors. :(

My boyfriend and I don’t really have any anniversaries. I always remember the day we had our first kiss and sometimes I will remind him when it comes along but we don’t celebrate it, we just smile about it.

Really, none of them are that important. How we check in with each other each night and see our two kids is what’s important. I don’t remember when our first date was or the date of when we said we loved each other. I do know it was very scary to hear and say because it meant the end of our marriages to others that we were married to. We’ve moved several times so that’s irrelevant, there was no proposal and we married twice, one actually that matters, and one legally. I remember the formber, my MIL remembers the latter.